Fact check: O’Rourke’s half-baked marijuana legalization count

10/6/18–During the “Turn out for Texas” rally, El Paso congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke told a crowd of more than 50,000 supporters that marijuana use is legal in most states. Although O’Rourke made this claim, in actuality only nine states have legalized marijuana use for all adults, but 30 have some form of legal use for medical purposes, giving O’Rourke’s statement an element of truth. Read